The latter part of a man's life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he...
JONATHON SWIFT In some awful, strange, paradoxical way, atheists tend to take religion more seriously than the prac...
JONATHON MILLER Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
JONATHON KOZOL If you can do that [create a synthetic hypo-campus for humans], in theory you could actually introdu...
JONATHON MORENO I'm sure we will get to a point of instantaneous communication between the Web [World Wide Web] and ...
JONATHON MORENO The emotional tail wags the rational dog.
JONATHON HAIDT You have to have a desire to want to play and continue to battle. Sometimes, with an uphill battle l...
JONATHON SHOCKEY With an affiliation, you can't depend on what (higher teams) are going to offer you. That's because ...
JONATHON SHOCKEY It's frustrating. It's the midway point. We do have a young team, and some guys are adjusting to pro...
JONATHON SHOCKEY There was a lot of emotion involved. To be honest, I have more respect for Martin than since the day...
JONATHON SHOCKEY This (win) is a huge confidence-builder for us.
JONATHON SHOCKEY I knew once I scored this year that I would get more opportunities. So I've been able to relax a lit...
JONATHON SHOCKEY The opposite of war isn't peace; it's creation.
JONATHON LARSON I'm not superstitious, so I don't really care. I'd rather go back to the regular uniforms. But it do...
JONATHON MODICA This game was similar to the first one, really -- we started out slow but came on in the second half...
JONATHON MODICA There's only us. There's only this. Forget regrets or life is yours to miss. No other hope. No other...
JONATHON LARSON Indeed, there is nothing on this earth more peaceful than a sleeping, purring cat.
JONATHON SCOTT PAYNE ...Bad behavior is bipartisan, but the Left seems to have an instinct for violence. This makes perfe...
JONATHON VON MAREN Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're h...
TAYLOR SWIFT When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someo...
TAYLOR SWIFT In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.
TAYLOR SWIFT I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.
TAYLOR SWIFT In my opinion, the only way to conquer stage fright is to get up on stage and play. Every time you p...
TAYLOR SWIFT I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.
TAYLOR SWIFT I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
TAYLOR SWIFT People haven't always been there for me, but music always has.
TAYLOR SWIFT I've always strived to be successful, not famous.
TAYLOR SWIFT I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.
TAYLOR SWIFT No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to lea...
TAYLOR SWIFT I love the scents of winter! For me, it's all about the feeling you get when you smell pumpkin s...
TAYLOR SWIFT I came from a lower-middle-class postwar family in a time of austerity and retrenchment, with no one...
GRAHAM SWIFT I think Kenny Chesney or Garth Brooks would be the coolest duet partners. I look up to them so much ...
TAYLOR SWIFT Promises and Pye-Crusts, are made to be broken.
JONATHAN SWIFT O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast gre...
JONATHAN SWIFT Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places.
JONATHAN SWIFT It's true that I've never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.
TAYLOR SWIFT I'm a Sagittarius, and one of our major qualities is that we're blindly optimistic.
TAYLOR SWIFT Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line dr...
TAYLOR SWIFT When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam ...
TAYLOR SWIFT We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another.
JONATHAN SWIFT There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
JONATHAN SWIFT Vision: the art of seeing things invisible.
JONATHAN SWIFT We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
JONATHAN SWIFT Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's si...
TAYLOR SWIFT If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a sco...
JONATHAN SWIFT He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be pu...
JONATHAN SWIFT When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal...
TAYLOR SWIFT If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scou...
JONATHAN SWIFT Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.
JONATHAN SWIFT I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly b...
TAYLOR SWIFT The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false op...
JONATHAN SWIFT Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
JONATHAN SWIFT Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he canno...
JONATHAN SWIFT Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.
JONATHAN SWIFT I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the ...
JONATHAN SWIFT In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my ju...
JONATHAN SWIFT The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his w...
JONATHAN SWIFT A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
JONATHAN SWIFT I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that's fine....
TAYLOR SWIFT I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy ch...
JONATHAN SWIFT Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.
JONATHAN SWIFT The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
JONATHAN SWIFT The most positive men are the most credulous.
JONATHAN SWIFT May you live every day of your life.
JONATHAN SWIFT I've always been a hugger. If we all hugged more, the world would be a better place :)
TAYLOR SWIFT People haven't always been there for me but music always has.
TAYLOR SWIFT Just be yourself, there is no one better.
TAYLOR SWIFT If somebody hurts you, it's okay to cry a river, just remember to build a bridge and get over it.
TAYLOR SWIFT A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with e...
JONATHAN SWIFT I took a chance, I took a shot
And you may think I’m bullet-proof, but I’m not. You took a...
TAYLOR SWIFT This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.
TAYLOR SWIFT I suffer from girlnextdooritis where the guy is friends with you and that's it.
TAYLOR SWIFT you're an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry
TAYLOR SWIFT Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
JONATHAN SWIFT When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he'...
TAYLOR SWIFT This album is called "FEARLESS," and I guess I'd like to clarify why we chose that as the title. To ...
TAYLOR SWIFT I don't think you should wait. I think you should speak now.
TAYLOR SWIFT and you come away with a great little story of a mess of a dreamer with the nerve to adore you
TAYLOR SWIFT But no matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it. You have ot believe in love storie...
TAYLOR SWIFT FEARLESS is getting back up and fighting for what you want over and over again....even though every ...
TAYLOR SWIFT Being FEARLESS isn't being 100% Not FEARFUL, it's being terrified but you jump anyway...
TAYLOR SWIFT To me, “FEARLESS” is not the absence of fear. It’s not being completely unafraid. To me, FEARL...
TAYLOR SWIFT To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is h...
TAYLOR SWIFT Be that strong girl that everyone knew would make it through the worst, be that fearless girl, the o...
TAYLOR SWIFT It's alright, just wait and see, your string of lights is still bright to me. Who you are is not whe...
TAYLOR SWIFT Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
JONATHAN SWIFT Don't set your wit against a child.
JONATHAN SWIFT Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with ...
JONATHAN SWIFT It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdo...
JONATHAN SWIFT Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
JONATHAN SWIFT The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet w...
JONATHAN SWIFT Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives.
JONATHAN SWIFT Rebukes are easy from our betters,
From men of quality and letters;
But when low dunces will ...
JONATHAN SWIFT What some people invent the rest enlarge.
JONATHAN SWIFT All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.
JONATHAN SWIFT Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you pleas...
JONATHAN SWIFT In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my he...
JONATHAN SWIFT Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
JONATHAN SWIFT We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
JONATHAN SWIFT Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the wor...
JONATHAN SWIFT Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
JONATHAN SWIFT Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical.
JONATHAN SWIFT I am struck by the way people behave on the Tube. They look at each other beadily and inquisitively,...
GRAHAM SWIFT One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish h...
JONATHAN SWIFT And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to...
JONATHAN SWIFT Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same positio...
JONATHAN SWIFT The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
JONATHAN SWIFT For the rest,
Whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through e...
JONATHAN SWIFT What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
JONATHAN SWIFT I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
JONATHAN SWIFT One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
JONATHAN SWIFT When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in ...
JONATHAN SWIFT 'Tis an old maxim in the schools,
That flattery's the food of fools;
Yet now and then your men...
JONATHAN SWIFT She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk.
JONATHAN SWIFT I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contrib...
JONATHAN SWIFT It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: a...
JONATHAN SWIFT Come, agree, the law's costly.
JONATHAN SWIFT There's none so blind as they that won't see.
JONATHAN SWIFT Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; wh...
JONATHAN SWIFT Brutes find out where their talents lie;
A bear will not attempt to fly,
A foundered horse w...
JONATHAN SWIFT But when a Man
JONATHAN SWIFT Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
JONATHAN SWIFT I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words ...
JONATHAN SWIFT Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
JONATHAN SWIFT Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth,...
JONATHAN SWIFT I wont quarrel with my bread and butter.
JONATHAN SWIFT I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
JONATHAN SWIFT It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.
JONATHAN SWIFT Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.
JONATHAN SWIFT But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into...
JONATHAN SWIFT She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.
JONATHAN SWIFT Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same positi...
JONATHAN SWIFT And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, ...
JONATHAN SWIFT I warrant you lay abed till the cows came home.
JONATHAN SWIFT Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.
JONATHAN SWIFT Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
JONATHAN SWIFT Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a ...
JONATHAN SWIFT I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
JONATHAN SWIFT As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a...
JONATHAN SWIFT All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rut...
GRAHAM SWIFT How we apples swim.
JONATHAN SWIFT Instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnis...
JONATHAN SWIFT Convey a libel in a frown. And wink a reputation down!
JONATHAN SWIFT For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
JONATHAN SWIFT The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been...
JONATHAN SWIFT Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
JONATHAN SWIFT They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
JONATHAN SWIFT What some invent the rest enlarge.
JONATHAN SWIFT I heard the little bird say so.
JONATHAN SWIFT A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound, As emblems of the sovereign p...
JONATHAN SWIFT Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.
JONATHAN SWIFT So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller sti...
JONATHAN SWIFT A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
JONATHAN SWIFT In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent ...
JONATHAN SWIFT A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him.
JONATHAN SWIFT He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be p...
JONATHAN SWIFT Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts wit...
JONATHAN SWIFT Necessity is the mother of invention.
JONATHAN SWIFT It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second place have an undoubted title to the ...
JONATHAN SWIFT That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that th...
JONATHAN SWIFT Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
JONATHAN SWIFT It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguishe...
JONATHAN SWIFT We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
JONATHAN SWIFT Never sleeping, still awake, Pleasing most when most I speak; The delight of old and young, ...
JONATHAN SWIFT Bread is the staff of life.
JONATHAN SWIFT Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies but which let wasps and hornets break through.
JONATHAN SWIFT The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
JONATHAN SWIFT Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength....
JONATHAN SWIFT Faith! he must make his stories shorter or change his comrades once a quarter.
JONATHAN SWIFT When a true genius appears in this world you may know him by the sign that the dunces are all in con...
JONATHAN SWIFT Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.
JONATHAN SWIFT When a true genius appears in this world you may know him by this sign, that the dines are all in co...
JONATHAN SWIFT Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture...
JONATHAN SWIFT There is a time for silence. There is a time for waiting you turn. But if you know how you feel and ...
TAYLOR SWIFT I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can't ima...
TAYLOR SWIFT I think about food literally all day every day. It's a thing.
TAYLOR SWIFT A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.
TAYLOR SWIFT The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do ...
GRAHAM SWIFT Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
JONATHAN SWIFT Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
JONATHAN SWIFT Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you&#...
TAYLOR SWIFT Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spe...
TAYLOR SWIFT Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relati...
TAYLOR SWIFT You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thou...
TAYLOR SWIFT It's so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that yo...
TAYLOR SWIFT Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
JONATHAN SWIFT As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
JONATHAN SWIFT No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from...
JONATHAN SWIFT There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
JONATHAN SWIFT Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest ...
JONATHAN SWIFT There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
JONATHAN SWIFT Books, the children of the brain.
JONATHAN SWIFT Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
JONATHAN SWIFT We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
JONATHAN SWIFT Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their ow...
JONATHAN SWIFT One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinv...
TAYLOR SWIFT I've always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. ...
TAYLOR SWIFT People like music when they're in love, but they don't need it as much. You need music when ...
TAYLOR SWIFT My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. ...
TAYLOR SWIFT I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of y...
TAYLOR SWIFT